I’m not sure how accurate StatCounter is, given that most Linux users use adblockers. However, according to it, Linux has almost a 14% desktop share in India.

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    Is this real and safe? Why is Microsoft letting it be hosted on their own platform?

    I looked at the code but the “single file version” is 10377 lines of Batch. They want me to do the power shell equivalent of curl abc.com | bash. The official website looks legit but I have no idea if this is safe or how they’re doing it.

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      I dunno if that particular one is safe or not, but running a webpage as a script is asking for it.

      Could be swapped to something else at any moment, and what you see if you browse to it may not be what is returned if you use the command line…

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      These are the most well-known activation scripts that many people trust. They are well documented and often recommended, with more than one contributor. Written in powershell, I believe that if they were malicious, some of the 46k people who starred the repo or 4.8k people who forked it would notice. That being said, you can only be sure if you read the code, which is luckily not that difficult in the powershell script case. I personally trust them, definitely more than I trust Microsoft itself :D